Last year’s “Off the Richter Scale” hour brought a medley of Bay Area writers whose work reveals the impact of living at the continent’s edge. This year brings even more variety and excitement. Join Thaisa Frank and three Heyday authors–Howard Junker (AutoBioDiversity), Andrew Lam (East Eats West), and Fred Setterberg (Lunch Bucket Paradise)–for “Part of Off the Richter Scale, Day Two.” The second day of “Off the Richter Scale” brings the epicenter home with two hours of writing from California and the Bay Area, before heading off to explore writing in extreme circumstances and from deep within the mind—defined in terms spiritual, physical, or cybernetic. This event is park of Litquake.
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Fred Setterberg is the coauthor, with Lonny Shavelson, of Toxic Nation, 
Andrew Lam is an editor and cofounder of New America Media, an association of over two thousand ethnic media outlets in America. His essays have appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines across the country, and his short stories are anthologized widely. Followed by a film crew back to his homeland, Vietnam, he was featured in the documentary My Journey Home, which aired nationwide on PBS in 2004. His book